driver do touchpad trava maquina

Ola a todos, estou rodando o slack 10.1 kernel 2.4.29 no meu notebook um hp zv500, e estou tentando configurar o touchpad alps dele com o driver do synaptics, contudo apos configurar tudo corretamente corretamente como diz o INSTALL e o README.alps ao iniciar o X, a maquina trava e no log dele tem a seguinte mensagem:

(II) Initializing extension GLX
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.2
(**) Option "Device" "alps"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device alps
No such file or directory.
Synaptics driver unable to open device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "TouchPad"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"

a parte do meu xorg.conf q tem as configuracoes do touchpad eh a seguinte

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "TouchPad"
Option "Device" "alps"
Option "Protocol" "alps"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.015"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
EndSection

alguem saberia me ajudar?